Snails

Gastropoda Cuvier 1795

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Gastropoda (Snails) is a class of molluscs. There are 66505 species of Snails, in 7083 genera and 626 families.

EOL has data for 12 attributes, including:

cultivated in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/cultivated_in
- Definition: This organism is cultivated (populations grown with the aid of human effort or technology) in the following region(s)
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Cook Islands
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/1899402
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known marine species
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DescribedAcceptedSpecies
- Definition: number of currently described and taxonomically accepted marine species in this clade (Appeltans et al. 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22, 2189–2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036)
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40000
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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California
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/5332921
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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small river
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000890
- Comment: "Small" is ambiguous. For details on "Small rivers" (e.g. the Salween river) see http://worldwildlife.org/biomes/small-river-ecosystems. This class will be replaced with a less ambiguous class.
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harvested in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/harvested_in
- Definition: This organism is caught or collected, and put to human use, in the following region(s)
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France
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3017382
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undescribed marine species present in museum collections
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/UndescribedSpeciesInMuseumCollections
- Definition: "marine species in this clade which are currently represented in specimen collections (estimate) (Appeltans et al. 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22, 2189–2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036)"
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45000

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of snails. View this species on GBIF

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Snail Habitats

The environments in which many snails species are known to live. Select an environment to see its snails species checklist.

snails Habitats

The environments in which many snails species are known to live. Select an environment to see its snails species checklist.

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